0202: Michael Larson broke Press Your Luck

World's Greatest Con

Dog And Pony Show Audio

True Crime, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The largest single-day haul in game show history. An Ohio conman exploits Press Your Luck so cleanly they're forced to admit it and hand him the cash. That's only the beginning of his strange, sad story.

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0:00.0	Some things just add some play to your day.
0:02.8	Catching the toast as it pops out of the toaster.
0:05.6	Dancing down the street to your favourite place.
0:08.8	Wearing a sparkly boots to the shop.
0:11.2	Best of all, picking the new Red Scratch Card.
0:14.0	A Red Scratch Card, please.
0:15.7	Thank you.
0:16.7	And doing your own drum roll.
0:18.5	This is exciting.
0:21.4	Add some play to your day,
0:22.8	with Scratch Cards from the National Lottery.
0:24.8	So it's too big, place more.
0:26.4	Brawls and procedures are by a player's must be 18 or over.
0:30.4	This is World's Greatest Con.
0:35.7	I'm Brian Brushwood.
0:38.0	I don't know for sure if this was my first one,
0:41.6	but it was definitely an early one.
0:43.3	And the one I remember the most.
0:45.3	A moment of inspiration.
0:47.2	A moment when I knew something that nobody else did.
0:51.5	I was seven years old, going through the Houston Post,
0:54.6	looking for the comic pages.
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